The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-30
sOTTH CAROLINA.

build an additional cotton mill at coSt OIL
$500, 900.
J-P Murdaugh has resigned the Inten-
dency Of Var1ville, and A. Z. Speaks mas
been elected to fill the vacancy.
DIR. S. L. Hardin, a well-kpown physician
and inventor Of a popular patent medlGlne
bearing his name, died at GreenVlAe FIJI
day.
The clerk of the board of county commits
sioners has informed the local newspapers
of Sumter that hereafter the county VIII
allow them no remuneration for advertis-
ing Or publishing the grand jury present.
ments.
The work on the new depot at Snmter
is at present delayed by the material not
being on the ground As soon as the lum-
Der arrives the work will be continued and
the structure will probably be completed IN
few weeks
Manager Monaghan is negotiating with
the railroad authorities to secure cheap ex-
cursion rates from all points along the line
of the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
railroad to Sumter on June ., when
Charleston will play ball there.
The Sumter Baptist church will give an
excursion to Waccamaw Lake on june ID.
The African Methodist Episcopal Sunday
school will also give an excursion to Column
bia on June s. The proceeds of this excur-
sion viii be devoted to the Sumter district
school
The presentn1ent Of the grand jury at the
recent term of the Sumter Court declares the
jail, poor house and other county buildings
to be in good condition. The presentment
states that the court house, jail and poor
house are all insured for SIS 900, and recon-
mends that the amount of insurance be
reduced.
Rebecca Ellis, a colored woman, was COM
mitted to the Pickens jail Thursday for kill
ing her own child She is no doubt crazy.
She acknowledges killing the child, but
says II she had not done SO she and the child
both would have been destroyed by great
noise she heard coming, and to save herself
she killed her infant child.
Col. T. J. Moore, living near Spartan
burg, a few days ago with the aid OF one
assistant took 800 pounds of honey from
twenty-five hives of the Simplicity pattern.
From some of the hives he took sixty to
seventy-five pounds. His wife and daugh-
ter packed about 400 pounds of the honey
in shipping boxes in one day. The quality
is very fine, the season having been about
dry enough for honey.
The undertakers Of Charleston, after be-
ing in session for two days attending the
lectures of Prof. j. Il. Clarke, who was in
caring for and preserving the dead, have
organized THE Funeral Directors Associa-
ton of Charleston, the objects Of the meet
ing and association being to raise them
selves to that standard of proficiency that is
demanded by the public in this age of adj
vancement.
The Turkey Creek canal of Sumter has
been cut through from end to end. The
contractor now has gang of worhmen
going over the line and putting the finishing
touches on the work wherever it may be
needed. Gen. Noise expects to turn the job
over to the town next week, completed in
every point. The water flows easily and
rapidly down the new channel, and the
drainage of the town will no doubt be
greatly benefited by it.
The Rev. J. S. Murray, of Anderson,
thipks he has discovered a remedy for
erysipelas. Mr. Murray has been suffering
some time from the effects of that disease,
and few days ago, while eating some
Strawberries, he applied a quantity to his
hands and wrists. The relief was complete
The next night the disease appeared around
and III his eyes An application of fresh
Strawberries was made and very soon there
was no trace of the disease.
Mr.. S. S. Fraser, retiring Treasurer Of
Georgetown county, has made his final set
Element of taxes with the Comptroller Gen
eral. The total State tax charged, including
balances from back years, amounted to
so, 161 So: commissions, 1888 So; abated by
Comptroller General, $40 As: nulla bona,
S67; delinquent with Treasurer's costs,
1927 OF; executions in hands of deputies,
S64 70; in litigation, 81 25; paid to the
State Treasurer, S8,073 %. Mr.. Fraser is
succeeded by Mr.. Z. N. Lucas, the newly
appointed Treasurer.
The citizens of Greenville' held a mass
meeting Friday night, and unanimously
passed resolutions requesting the Legislature
to authorize an election for the issue of
$4,000 of city bonds to be used in building
houses for the white graded schools, $4,000
to be used on the west side of Reedy river
and $12, 900 on the east side. The colored
pupils already have a comfortable building
in each of the two divisions of the city
There is now not a breath of opposition TO
the proposed tax The citizens whose
contemplation defeated this measure at
converted by the splendid results from the
practical operation of the schools, and are
now among the warmest friends of the
schools
There was wholesale jail-breaking at
Greenville Thursday night. Six colored
prisoners, confined in a cell on the second
floor, dug through the stone and cement
wall with the iron handle of a kettle by a
few hours of work. The first notice the
jailer had OF the escape was when one
Adams, who was one of the fugitives.
knocked at the Jail door about daylight and
asked to be readmitted. He is a United
States prisoner serving out q sentence, and
concluded he had best clear himself of the
law by returning and staying his time
Those who left were Joe Harris, who is i'm
plicated in the great railroad robbery; the
two Adams brothers, of Abbeville, awaiting
trial for counterfeiting; Jake Fiply. horse
thief recently brought back IRON North
Carolina. and a negro awaiting trial for
grand larceny. Active pursuit was made
without result.
The Town Council of Sumter discussed
the canal and water works question Friday
night. The water which was sent to the
State chemist from the stream which it is
proposed TO utilize has been declared unfit
Tor drinking purposes. 1t is still an open
question, however, as u sample of water sent
from street pump, which has been used for
many years without any i'll effects, was also
declared unfit for use, and it seems that if
one can be used and never cause sickness
of any kind the other might also be
used with impunity. The Council,
however, will hardly run the risk, but
will make other arrangements. There is at
present no probability of the result of this
analysis efRecting the prospect for the estab-
lishment of the WORKS. The Council will
make other propositions TO the contracting
companies, which they will no doubt accept
and tlA usovly wilt COON no nm o.. ,uo,- m =